George Roaonmond Forest Seymour Buffalo CoalitiQll To Slop US SUNY 112 S Un<X>ln Intervention In 1lie Mid-Ea.st '458 Wuhington Ave Keene, NH 03431 PO Box 21-40 Albany, NY 12203 6oBS7-8018 Buffalo, NY 142-40 31H98-16S2 716-881-1525 David Kay Tompkins Counry SANE/ Freeze Rob M00'\5 Upstate Campaign For Global Gale McGovern Securiry 51 Old Ford Rd IS Mountalnvlew Dr New Pal12, NY 12561 Oneonta, NY 13820 914-255-7173 Paul Pearce Syracuse Peace Council Melissa Ennen Hands Off-New School New York, NY Comm Against Dying For Oil 914-353-2445 Marilyn Harrison 1010 Walnut SI Military Families Support Utiea, NY 13502 John Hallaby Network 315-792-1927 Nari Student Network Against 406 Jackson Park Rd US Intervention Kannapolla, NC 28083 EIUe Dorricy 103 Franklin St 704-938-5090 Buffald Coal To Slop US Int In New York, NY 10003 Mid-Ea.st 212-227-0221 Rev John Mendez PO Box 2140 Emmanuel Baptist Church Buffalo, NY 14240 Dawn Reel 1076 Shalimar Dr 716-881-???? Union Theo Seminary Winston-Salem, NC 27107 6o2-600 W I 22nd SI 918-788-7023 Emergency No War For Oil New Yori:. Coal ..----- 51 Old Ford Rd 212-749-~ New Paltz, NY 12561 Trish Sch! 914-255-7173 2s-11 w I New Yori Gavrielle Gemma 212-228-<i Coal To Slop US Intervention In The Mid-Ea.st john We~ 36El2S! DSA You New York, NY 10003 295 Wyt 212-254-2295 Brooklyn, Long Island ACT-UP Nina Cha PO Box 514 Students Westbury, NY 11590 905-16oo 516-338-4662 New Yor 212-977 SPRING 1992 /SSUE#53 I ' ' '' ' .. ' . .. 2 EDIT 2 CHll()NC)l.C»Y GULF CRISIS by Simone FarkhOndeh, Dee . Dee Halleck. Marty Lucas and Cathy 9 10 TAPE DESCRIPTIONS 11 CREDITS 12 SITUATION REPOllS Canada: Peter Flemington t has been a year since the Gulf War, I sat out the first few weeks of the Gulf War San ff Leshne I the war that has been referred to as a in Paris. At this time, I was both thankful and "high tech extravaganza". Like any war, it bewildered to be away from familiar San FranclsCO. Je§se Drew was brutal and inflicted tremendous television anchors-thankful for not being 13 Jac>«Jn: Te Kogawa human, ecological and economic glued to the TV and simultaneously devastation. From a U.S. military and bewildered due to not understanding 14 Miiwaukee· ~Danielson political view-it is no doubt a thrilling victory. French. But just like everyone else in Paris, 15 Budlngt Operation Desert Shield very quickly the TV was on non-stop for weeks. Just like became Operation Desert Storm. everywhere else, we viewed the few censored images over and over and over This multi-billion dollar media spectacle was again. It only emphasized that this was a written, directed and edited by the media mega-war of misinformation. Pentagon. All starring roles were 100% Commentators desperately filled air time U.S.A. , supporting roles and bit parts were with nothing: unknown military movements played by the allies. Old enemies made were mapped out and presented like convenient friends, democrats and weather reports. The most memorable republicans, blacks and whites, Germany, graphic was that of a large sand box with Japan and Iran. Brilliantly produced, it was 3D miniatures, this landscape was covered a mini-series with a guaranteed happy by topographic and ground level camera ending? views. For the first time since WWII. Canada It's not true that if I closed my eyes and ears exercised military might over diplomatic for long enough, the war would soon be manoeuvres. There was no question that over. It's not true that if I doused myself in Canada would, of course, unconditionally expensive fragrances, kept high on support the U.S. initiative. We are champagne, lost in fine art, and accomplices in the "new world order" of surrounded by exciting new friends, this devious manipulation, greed and violence. would not be my war. I wanted the war to Might is right. disappear, I wanted Paris alive and the Eiffel Tower reopened. But sooner or later, I We are proud to produce this report about would have to confront the realities and the brave anti-war voices of opposition. The effects of a long war that will not end. Gulf Crisis TV Project, initiated by Paper Tiger Television and Deep Dish out of New A year later, it is the Gulf Crisis TV Project, York was an important historical event for the most significant voice of opposition that media activists. Through situation reports, lingers in our memories. In preparing this chronologies and passionate responses, we report, the single most important issue that can retrace the Gulf crisis through the keeps surfacing is the process of creative actions of alternative interventions empowerment that people got from this using whatever means possible to project. Not just the videomakers, not just counteract the one-sided view of the programmers, but the public who were corporate controlled media. As the move able to view news made from another to war intensified, so did growing perspective. This grassroots network is what opposition. Using satellite, camcorders, has surfaced out of that process. Read this faxphones, public access cable, the Gulf report, obtain copies of the tapes and use Crisis TV Project identified and linked this directory to continue developing a truly together pro-peace activities. alternative media network. The use of satellite technology and public I wish to extend my thanks to Dee Dee access stations to transmit images of Halleck, Maggie Smith, Marty Lucas, Cathy demonstrations, peace rallies and teach-ins Scott, Paper Tiger (NY) and Paper Tiger to a broad audience proved to be a viable West (San Fran) for compiling this 1102Halnm model. Public access and activist media is information. Due to the lack of space, we Vc:n:ouver, IC CANADA V612X6 alive and strong in America. This is a sad were unable to include all the wonderful Tele.,:ione: (60&) 681-4336 reminder of how Canadian artists and material submitted. Unlike so many of us, Fax: (6CM) 613-16'2 alternative media initiatives have aban­ who stood by and did nothing to try to stop doned the potential of community cable the madness, I am grateful to all of the With the Rnanclal Alllltance of: stations in this country. In our efforts to be hundreds of thousands that did try to make The Conada Council paid professionals, we have distanced a difference. CHy Of Vancouver ourselves from the amateur terrain of the community channel. Although hard-fought Video Gulde: for in the idealistic 70s - the use of Paul Wong Volume 11, Number 3, Issue 53, Spring 1992 community cable has been sporadic and Editor ISSN 02286726 British Columbia, Conada isolated, the use of satellite non-existent March l, 92 2nd CLASS MAIL REG No. 7268 2 ~ Video Guide #53 ( ' THE GULF CRISIS TV PROJECT c H R 0 N 0 L 0 G y COMPOSITE OF TEXTS AND TESTIMONIES: SIMONE FARKHONDEH, it into a half hour and DEEDEE HALLECK, transmitted it on cable MARTYLUCA & locally and em it to San CA7HYSC07T Franci co, Los Angeles, Chi ago, Springfield, • AUGUST 1990 Wa hington and several other citie . It wa sent IRAQI MILITARY around as a teaching/ INVADES KUWAIT. activi t tool, then p ople U.S. BEGINS TROOP started sending us more BUILD UP IN MIDDLE material . A mall circle of EAST. tape tarted circulating. By PAPER TIGER 1V PIANS this time we were working TO COUNTER MEDIA with the Vietnam Vets DISINFORMATION. Against the War the Coalition to End U .. F: When Iraq moved into Intervention in the Middle Kuwait, the media portrayal East, the War Re i ter of the ituation wa limit d. League, and Hand · Off. There wa very littl information about Iraq, the DD: The office of both history of the Iraq/ . Paper Tiger and Deep Dish relationship and no are in the ame building as media response by and for and able to down-link information about the the War Resisters League. the many communitie that programming. We knew colonial past of the region. W.R.L. , while a cordial were organizing again t the that many cable access We felt a gearing up toward neighbor, had scarcely U .. war machine. At thi stations would run peace a bigger confrontation, a taken notice of our media time we had no money and programming. We had a war, and realized very work as it did not fa ll were madly trying to rai e few donations, the first quickly that we would have w ithin the standard left funds. We had contacted came from Margaret to move immediately to classifications of two major anti-war Brenman Gibson, an counter the lack of real "organizing". With the coalitions, the Coalition to associate of Daniel Elsberg, information. coming of the war, we Stop U.S. Intervention In who was convinced that began to collaborate on The Middle East and the there would be a major war •SEPTEMBER many aspects of the anti­ Campaign for Peace In The in the Gulf. war activities, exchanging Middle East which together U.S. MOBIIJZES information and re ources repre ented 900 local John Schwartz from the NATIONAL GUARD FOR on a daily basis. We helped activist groups and national DAETEC channel (8 full "OPE.RATION DE.SE.RT to promote their activities peace and justice time cable channels that SHIELD". and we were listed in their organization . Both of the play alternative material in ANTI-WAR TEACH-INS mailings.